• The Herald online

    • 28/11/2019
      • LLC
    • Ed Wood

    The University of Dundee now has on-campus access to The Herald, thanks to an initiative to provide free access to the heraldscotland.com website to all colleges and Universities in Scotland.

  • EBSCOhost Educational Databases

    • 07/08/2019
      • LLC
    • Ed Wood

    The ICE Virtual Library, hosts all the content from the ICE publishing division of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), providing information for researchers and practitioners worldwide in the fields of civil engineering, construction and materials science.

  • Powerful Revision Strategies

    • 16/07/2019
    • Ed Wood

    In this Bite we look at some other proven techniques that you can use to further refine your approach. 

  • Building Recall

    • Ed Wood

    Revision Bites aims to equip you with a number of potentially powerful new ways to approach your learning, but perhaps the most important of all is ‘recall’, or ‘information retrieval’. In this Bite we’ll explain why this approach is so crucial.

  • Scheduling Effective Revision

    • Ed Wood

    In this Bite we look at two powerful concepts related to how you organise your revision- ‘Spaced Practice’ and ‘Interleaving’.

  • Ineffective Revision Techniques

    • Ed Wood

    Research shows that many people use the same handful of popular approaches but that these techniques don’t really work effectively for university level revision. This Revision Bite looks at a few of these common but ineffective techniques.

  • Old bookmarks taking you to the old My Dundee?

    • 07/06/2019
      • CTIL
      • My Dundee
      • Service News
    • Ed Wood

    What’s happening With the move to the Ultra Navigation, some users have reported that the previous bookmarks that they had for specific My Dundee pages are taking them to the old style “front page” of Blackboard. When a user gets into this area, they’re able to get into courses etc,…

  • Tip of the Week: Link to specific times in a video

    • 15/04/2019
      • News
    • Ed Wood

    We all like to add video content, however sometime when we add a video it is good to start the video at a specific point. In this tip of the week I will show you how to do this in both YouTube and Vimeo. YouTube – right click YouTube is…

  • ICE Virtual Library – Featured Resource

    • 11/04/2019
      • LLC
    • Ed Wood

    The ICE Virtual Library, hosts all the content from the ICE publishing division of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), providing information for researchers and practitioners worldwide in the fields of civil engineering, construction and materials science.

  • Bite your revision

    • 02/04/2019
      • CTIL
    • Ed Wood

    CTIL was recently tasked with helping our colleagues at Academic Skills Centre (ASC) to help create a short set of revision guides named ‘Revision Bites’, to help students not fall foul of some of the common ineffective study techniques and take advantage of proven effective study strategies. The resource comprises a number of…

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